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Inner Peace Searching for inner peace begins with the recognition of suffering. Creating world peace begins with the recognition of suffering. Recognizing suffering is easy, but it hurts. Whenever you feel hurt or notice someone hurting, there is suffering. Recognizing that is the first step to peace. If you are not feeling or seeing hurt and suffering, then you have found peace. The minute you begin to worry that the peace won’t last, you are back to suffering. The minute you realize that the peace will last, you have fundamentally changed your way of suffering. When you recognize that you can handle your suffering, you have found peace. — Zenmister, from Peace & Suffering #peace #suffering #innerPeace #zenmister #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CnwtPGYux4N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Our normal stream of consciousness is like a muddy river. The dirt from the riverbed gets churned up by the rushing water, so the essence of water, which is clear, gets obscured and the water looks like the color of mud. It is the same with our mind. The essence of our mind is calm and clear, but as it churns through our lives, it takes on the color of our thoughts. Whatever we think, appears to be how things are. To clear a muddy river, the water has to stop moving, then the dirt can settle back to the bottom. To benefit from a clear mind, we have to let our thoughts settle down. If our attention is like an egg beater, we have to stop mixing the water in our heads, and bring it down into our bodies. That gives our heads the time and space needed to settle down. — zenmister #consciousness #calmness #thoughts #zenmister https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0xAKwOHUG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Our normal stream of consciousness is like a muddy river. The dirt from the riverbed gets churned up by the rushing water, so the essence of water, which is clear, gets obscured and the water looks like the color of mud. It is the same with our mind. The essence of our mind is calm and clear, but as it churns through our lives, it takes on the color of our thoughts. Whatever we think, appears to be how things are. To clear a muddy river, the water has to stop moving, then the dirt can settle back to the bottom. To benefit from a clear mind, we have to let our thoughts settle down. If our attention is like an egg beater, we have to stop mixing the water in our heads, and bring it down into our bodies. That gives our heads the time and space needed to settle down. — zenmister #consciousness #calmness #thoughts #zenmister https://www.instagram.com/p/CdlQag3Oqgi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Judging Yourself The beauty of being able to notice thoughts like that is that you can see them for what they are before you act on them. That moment of reflection gives you time to let those thoughts go before they hurt you more or hurt somebody else. We judge ourselves in our thoughts all the time. That is a strong habit. When you notice your thoughts making you think you are an asshole, label that thought as a judgement and then let it go. If you are in the habit of judging other people and putting them into categories of naughty and nice, then those judgments invariably turn back on you. If you think mostly good things about other people you will also think good things about yourself. If you are harsh with others, you will be harsh on yourself. Whenever you notice yourself falling into that habit, neutralize the harshness, and let the judgment go. Keep noticing those thoughts. Notice how you judge yourself and others. Whenever you catch yourself judging, say to yourself “judging”, not good, not bad, then let the thoughts go. — Zenmister, from an Ask Post #judgingYourself #judgingThoughts #judgingPeople #thoughts #zenmister #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CaCvqpYuo_J/?utm_medium=tumblr

Low self-esteem is like constant jealousy. When you think you are unworthy, you become jealous of everybody who appears worthier in comparison. When you notice yourself comparing yourself to others or to a more perfect imaginary image of yourself remember that you are hurting yourself by making that comparison. Remember that because you are often anxious and depressed that your judgement about yourself is likely to be negative. You can't trust that judgement. You have to remember that you are no better or worse than anybody else. – Zenmister, from the post Low Self-Esteem and Jealousy #selfEsteem #lowSelfEsteem #jealousy #zenmister https://www.instagram.com/p/CYNZeDJshKx/?utm_medium=tumblr

Putting Down Your Thoughts When you can put down your thoughts and let yourself be right where you are, as you are, you have engineered the great escape. It is unlike the little escapes of avoiding responsibility, it is the big escape of getting out of your self and self revolving thoughts. When you stop worrying about how you are going to understand electrical engineering or Shakespeare, and simply give yourself over to the task before you, you will find something interesting and fulfilling there. — Zenmister #houghts #asYouAre #worrying #thePresent #zenmister https://www.instagram.com/p/CYElZ3yObBn/?utm_medium=tumblr